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"Auxiliary Tables" for Easy Administration of Field Val...


In our current Change/Defect Management system we have the concept of "Auxiliary Tables" that have easy administration access and are used for dynamic data in a form's dropdown lists. For example we use them to store "Project ID Numbers" from our time tracking tool. These data get added and archived on a daily basis by non-technical people as projects come and go.

Does Team Foundation have a similar concept? Basically a place where people can easily administer data that is used in a work item form. I can see how we can export/import the work item xml schema and add values there, but we need a place where non-technical people can easily enter data.




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mcdonaldn
Team Foundation does not come with anything built-in to accept values for various fields in various work item types in server from end users. We have global list feature and glimport tool for that purpose and we exposed programmatic methods to import such global lists. See http://blogs.msdn.com/team_foundation/archive/2005/05/06/415268.aspx for step-by-step instructions. Using this, an app can be build for non-technical end users and the app can accept, validate and import the values in TFS programmatically or by calling that tool.


http://blogs.msdn.com/narend
Naren Datha - MSFT

Thanks! I was hoping there was something a bit simpler right out of the box, but I'll give this a shot as it seems doable.




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mcdonaldn
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